Word: unshaken
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...Unshaken by a three-game losing streak, the Harvard women’s soccer team begins its quest for the Ivy League crown with the league opener at Brown tomorrow night...
...friends. For all his outer amiability, Bush is something of a hermit, "not very sociable," by his own account. He's seldom out and about evenings in Austin, likes to fall asleep watching sports stretched out on the sofa and has no qualms about leaving a roomful of hands unshaken in favor of downtime. His weekend getaway is 1,600 acres of dusty, dry prairie in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do but chop wood and drive a pickup around to visit the heifers. The nearest outposts of civilization are the remains of the Branch Davidian compound...
...President's political team was waving polls all over Capitol Hill last week that showed his approval rating unshaken by the Starr report. But the opinion that matters at this juncture belongs to a sliver of Americans: those who tend to vote in midterm elections and live in the 30 to 40 congressional districts where, for now, Democrats and Republicans still have a real contest...
...singles play, Wang opened her match with Princeton's Blair Farr by cruising to a one set lead, 6-1. Unshaken, Farr powered back, taking the second set 6-2. Wang was able to regroup, however. Regaining her early form, she closed out the match 6-1 in the third...
When I got to the end of the piece, that sense of detachment necessary for the reader to come away from a disturbing story unshaken was missing. I could know this girl. She could be one of my friends. And there are more like her, quietly hiding their secrets, not telling people for fear of disbelief or ostracization or worse...